I wanted to like this book. I really did. But I couldn’t. Part of why I couldn’t is how it was written. Sometimes I couldn’t tell WHO was talking. Which is a huge problem. I like prose. I like books written in prose. But I need to know who is talking and not be confused as to who is talking.

The author is good. I just think this book needed possibly another round of editing where someone went “hey, maybe make it a little clearer on WHO is talking at all times because it’s really vague at times”. Also, punctuation. There was no punctuation, no quotation marks (which goes back to people talking) so internal monologues vs people talking vs reading letters was hard to differentiate at times. Re-reading at times was necessary.

I liked the cover. I did. Honestly. It’s minimal enough that it can catch your attention but tells you enough about the book that you can figure out if it’s for you to even bother reading the blurb.

I almost didn’t like her (the main character’s) friends. Because they felt a bit like stereotypes. The girl who’s dying of a cancerous tumor. The gay boy with a homophobic father who gets sent to military school because of it. I feel like I’ve seen both those SO. MANY. TIMES. And her stepmother who is always trying to put her on a diet (I think to help her try to feel better about herself or something like that). Then you had the girl who bullied her for whatever unknown reason that was never really delved into. And I know that is a common thing that girls bully other girls for no reason (or seemingly no reason) I had it happen to me when I was in school. But it still bothers me to see it happen so frequently in books.

I felt the blurb could have done a better job in not spoiling one of the plot points of the book as well. Which I know authors typically have not a lot of control over. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. But whoever had control over that, shouldn’t have spoiled a plot point.

Overall, it’s a pretty decent book. Your typical girl falls for boy she thinks she’ll never have and boy is secretly falling for girl and has to convince girl that they should date book.